Man Faces Possible Jail Time For Apprehending Vandals Who Did $40,000 In Damage To His House

A Wayne County man is now facing four charges for Endangering the Welfare of a Child after he interrupted an act of vandalism at a home he was renovating for his father-in-law.

…The incident unfolded around 9 p.m. Saturday when Jesse Daniels said he told his wife to call 911 after he heard loud noises coming from the home next door and saw an individual striking a wall with a hammer.

Daniels tells 13WHAM News he ran next door and found four children, ages eight and ten, doing damage to the property. Daniels said he took a hammer from one of the kids and corralled them into a closet while he waited for police to arrive. Daniels estimated that the damage to his father-in-law’s property exceeds $40,000.

Clyde Village Police took the children back to their parents and filed felony criminal charges of Burglary 2nd Degree and Criminal Mischief 2nd Degree. Those cases will be handled in Family Court and the results of each case is likely to remain sealed.

On Monday police returned to Daniels’ home and arrested him on four counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child.

The parents of the children insisted on the charges according to authorities. They claim that their children were shoved into the closet, that one was grabbed around the neck, and that Daniels’ threatened them with the hammer.

Daniels was arraigned on those charges and is due back in court later this month. The maximum sentence on each charge is one year in county jail.

Wayne County District Attorney Richard Healy tells 13WHAM News that the entire incident is still under investigation and he is still gathering information. While Healy can decide not to prosecute he said he does not have enough information at this time to make that decision.

…Paul Bowler lives not far from Daniels’ home and the home that was vandalized and he made no excuses for the actions of his boys and their two alleged accomplices when 13WHAM News confronted him.

“No not at all there’s no excuses to be made,” explained Bowler. “I understand they were in the wrong but there are other ways to handle it. He (Daniels) knew who the kids were it’s not like they were strangers and send the kids home and call the cops then. You don’t sit there and torment them and tell them you’re going to bash their skulls in with a hammer.”

Bowler said his two boys are traumatized by the incident and their mother showed 13WHAM News a picture of the incident that she says one of them drew. Bowler also provided 13WHAM News with a photo of the neck of one of his boys because he said Daniels grabbed his son by the neck and left a mark.

Wow, wonder how Paul Bowler’s punk kids went so wrong? “Oooh, the bad man scared my boys when he caught them smashing up his house with a hammer! He should go to jail for that!”

Wrong answer.

Criminals don’t get to play the martyr. Furthermore, criminals are by definition, untrustworthy. So when a homeowner says one thing and a criminal says another, barring incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, the homeowner’s version should be treated as correct. In a case when none of these kids even had a trip to the hospital, the idea that Jesse Daniels could face any kind of legal repercussions is insane.

Right wing “conservatives” have to be among the most hypocritical people on the planet. You whine and rant endlessly about how the Constitution is being undermined by health care reform and liberalism in general, and then – at the first opportunity, you toss the Constitution and its principles in the trash. Based on incomplete facts and out-of-court unverified testimoney you convict a bunch of kids as “criminals” and “juvenile delinquents.” Get this straight – those kids will be “criminals” only after the facts are all known, admitted or proved in court, and an impartial trier of fact concludes they are guilty of a crime. Until then, they are – by law – innocent.

Assuming there is some truth in the reports, the parents of the kids have some questions to answer and perhaps some consequences to face as well. The justice system knows how to deal with that. It involves evidence, facts, sworn testimony, cross-examination and all the rest.

Again, assuming sometruth in the reports, t he homeowner did what had to be done – stopping vandalism – but there is still perhaps a question of whether he used excessive force against very young children. Again, none of you get to decide that – someone else, who has the facts – ALL the facts – will make that decision.

Thank God for our justice system. If justice wee in the hands of ignorant, hate-filled, vigilanties like you we would be in terrible trouble.

Right wing “conservatives” have to be among the most hypocritical people on the planet. You whine and rant endlessly about how the Constitution is being undermined by health care reform and liberalism in general, and then – at the first opportunity, you toss the Constitution and its principles in the trash. Based on incomplete facts and out-of-court unverified testimoney you convict a bunch of kids as “criminals” and “juvenile delinquents.” Get this straight – those kids will be “criminals” only after the facts are all known, admitted or proved in court, and an impartial trier of fact concludes they are guilty of a crime. Until then, they are – by law – innocent.

Assuming there is some truth in the reports, the parents of the kids have some questions to answer and perhaps some consequences to face as well. The justice system knows how to deal with that. It involves evidence, facts, sworn testimony, cross-examination and all the rest.

Again, assuming sometruth in the reports, t he homeowner did what had to be done – stopping vandalism – but there is still perhaps a question of whether he used excessive force against very young children. Again, none of you get to decide that – someone else, who has the facts – ALL the facts – will make that decision.

Thank God for our justice system. If justice wee in the hands of ignorant, hate-filled, vigilanties like you we would be in terrible trouble.

WELL AS L SEE IT, 1ST YOU SLAP THE SHIT OUT OF THE POOR KIDS, AND WHEN YOU REGAIN YOUR STRENGTH, YOU SLAP THE SHIT OUT OF THE BONE HEAD PARENTS WHO ARE RAISING SUCH BONE HEADED PUNKS. END OF QUOTE. AMF

WELL AS L SEE IT, 1ST YOU SLAP THE SHIT OUT OF THE POOR KIDS, AND WHEN YOU REGAIN YOUR STRENGTH, YOU SLAP THE SHIT OUT OF THE BONE HEAD PARENTS WHO ARE RAISING SUCH BONE HEADED PUNKS. END OF QUOTE. AMF

If that guy goes to jail for having those little assholes arrested for what they did I wouldn’t be surprised if when he got out of jail he went postal and took care of all the parents and all involved in arresting him!

If that guy goes to jail for having those little assholes arrested for what they did I wouldn’t be surprised if when he got out of jail he went postal and took care of all the parents and all involved in arresting him!

I would have kicked their asses! They needed it. In my day if a kid did something like this we would have got it when we got home if the parents had made them say they were sorry and make them help their parents pay for the damage, that would teach them some common sence and make them think about what happens when you do something wrong instead of blaming the victim.

I would have kicked their asses! They needed it. In my day if a kid did something like this we would have got it when we got home if the parents had made them say they were sorry and make them help their parents pay for the damage, that would teach them some common sence and make them think about what happens when you do something wrong instead of blaming the victim.

Seriously! Wow, I bet the dad of the kids with a sore neck grabbed him by the next cause he was pissed off about what the kids did. Just to blame it on the guy who caught the kids in act. You’re right it starts at home is why these kids do what they do and yet case sealed just so the kids can go do it again…

Seriously! Wow, I bet the dad of the kids with a sore neck grabbed him by the next cause he was pissed off about what the kids did. Just to blame it on the guy who caught the kids in act. You’re right it starts at home is why these kids do what they do and yet case sealed just so the kids can go do it again…

Absurd. A few threats are no harm to the little juvenile delinquents. Perhaps they need to realize that there will be consequences for their bad behavior. The overly-protective parents are the problem here. The charges must be dropped.

Absurd. A few threats are no harm to the little juvenile delinquents. Perhaps they need to realize that there will be consequences for their bad behavior. The overly-protective parents are the problem here. The charges must be dropped.